Marina Warner

Author of From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

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About the Author

Marina Warner is Professor of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and a distinguished writer of fiction, criticism, and history.

Includes the names: Marina Warner, Marina Warner, Marina Warner ed., Marina Warner ed., Marina; Victoria Warner, illustrated by Sophie Herxh Marina(Editor) Warner

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Works by Marina Warner

Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976) 619 copies

No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock (1998) 400 copies

Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (2014) 347 copies

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (1981) 325 copies

Indigo (1992) 227 copies

Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More (1994) 206 copies

Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment (1994) 199 copies

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (1985) 180 copies

Queen Victoria's Sketchbook (1979) 168 copies

Stranger Magic: charmed states and The Arabian Nights (2011) 167 copies

Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century (2006) 160 copies

The Dragon Empress (1972) 133 copies

Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature) (2002) 124 copies

The Lost Father (1988) 104 copies

The Leto Bundle (2001) 91 copies

Signs and Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture (2003) 68 copies

The Mermaids in the Basement (1993) 59 copies

L'Atalante (Bfi Film Classics) (1993) 41 copies

Murderers I Have Known: And Other Stories (2002) 41 copies

The Skating Party (1982) 34 copies

In a Dark Wood (1977) 27 copies

World of Myths (Legendary Past Series) (2003) 25 copies

Anselm Kiefer: Next Year in Jerusalem (2010) 24 copies

Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists (2018) 23 copies

Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir (2022) 23 copies

The Crack in the Teacup: Britain in the Twentieth Century (The mirror of Britain series) (1979) 17 copies

The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible (1997) 16 copies

Long Ago and Far Away: Eight Traditional Fairy Tales (2012) — Introduction — 16 copies

Fly Away Home (1800) 15 copies

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021) 13 copies

Into the Dangerous World: Some Thoughts on Childhood and Its Costs (Counterblasts) (1989) 11 copies

Dorothy Cross (2005) 11 copies

Sculpture at Goodwood British Contemporary Sculpture 02/03 (2001) 11 copies

Sculpture at Goodwood: A Vision for Twenty-first Century British Sculpture [A Celebration of the First Ten Years] (1842) 10 copies

The book of signs & symbols 9 copies

Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy (2021) — Contributor — 8 copies

Peter Randall-Page Sculpture and Drawing: 1977 - 1992 (2003) 7 copies

MAGGI HAMBLING : PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS (1987) 5 copies

Sigmar Polke: Windows for the Zurich Grossmunster (2010) 4 copies

Richard Wentworth (1993) 3 copies

The colour of time : Garry Fabian Miller (2010) 3 copies

TEMPORALE (2023) 3 copies

Only Make Believe (2005) 3 copies

The Mechanics' Institute Review: Issue 12: New stories from Birkbeck (2015) 2 copies

Women's Art at New Hall (1996) 2 copies

C'era una volta: piccola storia della fiaba (2021) 1 copy

Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court (Afterall Books / One Work) (2022) 1 copy

Nursery Rhymes 1 copy

The Impossible Day (1981) 1 copy

'Rescuing Wonderful Shivery Tales' in NYRB, 9 July 2015 [review of various editions of Bros Grimm incl Zipes' 'Complete… 1 copy

'Sexy fun' in TLS 5324, 15 April 2005 [review of Wiseman's 'Myths of Rome'] 1 copy

Une fusée pas comme les autres (1982) 1 copy

"Voodoo road ... On David Lynch's Lost Highway (Sight & Sound, August 1997) 1 copy

The devil inside : to mark the Day of the Dead Marina Warner explores the roots of our fascination with zombies (Lives… 1 copy

Paula Rego: Nursery rhymes : [exhibition] 23 November - 22 December 1989, Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd., Graphics… (1989) 1 copy

The difference in the dose 1 copy

La cella di Brìgit (2010) 1 copy

In the House of Crossed Desires: Libretto (Libretto) (Faber Edition) (1998) 1 copy

Managing monsters : six myths of our time : the 1994 Reith Lectures 1 copy

'Angels & engines: apocalypse & its aftermath ... ' in TLS 5342/3, 19 & 26 Aug 2005 1 copy

Natural Limits (in New Writing 7 - CALLIL) 1 copy

The absent mother, or women against women in the "old wives' tale" (1991) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Time Machine (1895) — Introduction, some editions — 17,213 copies

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) — Introduction, some editions — 5,355 copies

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) — Introduction, some editions — 2,343 copies

The Red Fairy Book (1890) — Introduction, some editions — 1,852 copies

The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) — Foreword, some editions — 1,413 copies

The Classic Fairy Tales [Norton Critical Edition] (1998) — Contributor — 988 copies

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (1691) — Introduction, some editions — 458 copies

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959) — Introduction, some editions — 372 copies

The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night (1959) — Introduction, some editions — 356 copies

Down Below (1944) — Introduction, some editions — 292 copies

The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1992) — Introduction, some editions — 284 copies

The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History (2015) — Contributor — 163 copies

The Professor and the Siren (1961) — Introduction, some editions — 156 copies

The Gobi Desert (1942) — Introduction, some editions — 123 copies

The State of the Language [1990] (1979) — Contributor — 89 copies

The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity (1700) — Contributor — 75 copies

Louise Bourgeois (2008) — Contributor — 74 copies

Midsummer Nights (1702) — Contributor — 73 copies

Ovid Metamorphosed (2000) — Contributor — 64 copies

A Virago Keepsake to Celebrate Twenty Years of Publishing (1993) — Contributor — 47 copies

The Outcast Hours (2019) — Contributor — 43 copies

The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contributor — 32 copies

The Fourth Pig (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales) (1936) — Introduction, some editions — 26 copies

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (2018) — Contributor — 24 copies

Enfleshings (1989) 22 copies

Fairy Tale Review: The Blue Issue (2006) — Contributor — 14 copies

Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850-2001 (2000) — Introduction — 12 copies

Refugee Tales: Volume II (2017) — Contributor — 12 copies

The Body and the Arts (2009) — Contributor — 9 copies

Silence, Please!: Stories After the Works of Juan Munoz (1996) — Contributor — 7 copies

Cornelia Parker (2022) — Contributor — 7 copies

Perpetua's Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (2012) — Contributor — 6 copies

Lewis Carroll (1998) — Contributor — 5 copies

Great fairytales, part 7, Beastly tales (2009) — Afterword — 2 copies

A Very Very Very Dark Matter [Theatre programme] (2018) — Contributor — 2 copies

Gramarye 1 (2012) — Editor — 2 copies

Gramarye 10 (2016) — Editor — 2 copies

Gramarye 13 (2018) — Editor — 1 copy

Gramarye 15 (2019) — Editor — 1 copy

Gramarye 16 (2019) — Editor — 1 copy

Gramarye 12 (2017) — Editor — 1 copy

Gramarye 11 (2017) — Editor — 1 copy

BBC Proms 2019 : Prom 41 : Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Lyadov & Glazunov [sound recording] (2019) — Contributor — 1 copy

Gramarye 14 (2018) — Editor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Warner, Marina
Legal name: Warner, Marina Sarah
Birthdate: 1946-11-09
Gender: female
Nationality: UK
Country (for map): England, UK
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Places of residence: Cairo, Egypt
Brussels, Belgium
Berkshire, England, UK
Kentish Town, North London, England, UK
Education: Oxford University (BA|1967 - Lady Margaret Hall)
St Mary's School, Ascot
Occupations: novelist
mythographer
Professor
short story writer
historian
journalist
Organizations: Birbeck College, University of London
University of Essex
The Daily Telegraph
Awards and honors: Honorary Fellow, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London (1994)
BBC Reith Lecturer (1994)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2000)
Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 2008)
Holberg Prize (2015)
Order of the Companions of Honor (2022) (show all 11)
Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire (2015)
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1984)
Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella di Solidareità (Italy, 2005)
Fellow, British Academy (2005)
British Academy Medal (2017)
Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd

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Reviews

Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short… by Marina Warner

It was a good overview of the Fairy Tale and the genre/type up to the current day. It was an easy and short read, a very promising start to the A Very Short Introduction series.

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Ranjr | 9 other reviews | Jul 13, 2023 |

Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner

What it says on the tin: a short history of how fairy tales have been told, written, collected, adapted, and evolved; how they represent the nation’s/cultures they originated from; the sanitization that started long before Disney; how and why modern artists and audiences continue to interact and connect with these age-old stories.

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vvbooklady | 9 other reviews | Feb 16, 2023 |

Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner

Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.

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fernandie | 9 other reviews | Sep 15, 2022 |